Cigarette dispenser



Oct. 1, 1929.

L. WEIDLICH CIGARETTE DISPENSER Filed May 11. 1927 6 INVENTOR. Lo Z06671721' 51 22271 BY 5am VJZMMM M.

' ATTORNEYS.

Patented Oct. 1, 1929 UNITED STATES LOUIS WEIDLIGI-I, or s'rRArroRi),CONNECTICUT CIGARETTE Application filed May 11,

This invention relates to improvements in cigarette dispensers whereby anumber of cigarettes may be housed, and discharged singly, by a simplemanipulation of the dispenser, by an attendant or person desiring toobtain one or more of the cigarettes.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, attractive andinexpensive form of dispenser, for domestic uses, which may be filledwith cigarettes from time to time, by simply removing a cover, andwhereby the cigarettes may be discharged on a holder one at a time, fromthe lower portion of the container, as may be required. Further tolocate the holder in close proximity to the outlet so that a secondcigarette can not be discharged while there is one resting in theholder, and finally to provide a special shaped stationary bottom forthe container whereby a rolling and feeding action of the cigaretteswill be produced, to prevent the cigarettes from becoming jammed.

lVith these and other objects in View, the invention resides andconsists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement ofparts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it beingunderstood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minordetails of construction within the scope of the claims may be resortedto without departure from the spirit, or sacrificing any of theadvantages of the invention.

Similar characters of reference denote like or corresponding partsthroughout the several figures of the accompanying drawing forming apart of this specification and upon which Fig. 1 shows aperspective viewof one of my improved cigarette dispensers.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the dispenser shown in Fig. 1 in itsnormal position, and i Fig. 3 is a similar cross sectional view, thoughfilled with cigarettes, and-in an operated position to discharge acigarette.

The invention resides more specifically in a base member having sideuprights intermediate of which the container proper is pivot- DISPENSER1927. Serial no. 190,387.

ally supported, and adapted normally to maintain a closed position, butpivotally mounted to be operated in a swinging manner, to discharge asingle cigarette with each manipulation of the case proper.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference markedupon thedrawings, 5 represents the base member 0f the dispenser, which may bemade of cast or sheet metal and is preferably of a general rectangularshape. The larger portion of the top surface of this base forms a bottomfor the dispenser container and includes a rib 6'upon the back and twosideportions, against and intermediate ofwhich the bot-tom edge of thecontainer is normally positioned. The top surface of this base isslightly irregular and includes an inclined surface 7 and a decliningsurface8 over which the cigarettes roll as the container is swung uponits pivot, and serves to insure the rolling and positioning of thecigarettes in the lower part of the container so as to insure thereleasement of one, and but one, with each operation of the case. Thesecigarettes are rolled forward, and discharged one at a time, assuggested by Fig. 3, so that one is discharged into the holder 9 witheach movement of the container and whereby a second cigarette cannotv bedis charged so long as one remains in the holder.

The base further serves to support the two side uprights 101O which arearranged in spaced relation to the container 11, except at the upper endwhere a pivotal screw or stud 18 serves to pivotally connect and supportthe container between said uprights and so that the bottom portion isfree to be swung outward, by an attendant, to the position shown in Fig.3, when the inner bottom edge 12 strikes the shoulder 14 of incline 7for the i purpose of discharging a cigarette, and after which thecontainer can be released and will drop back to its normal position, asshown in Fig. 2, by gravity.

The case or container proper may be. formed of sheet metal and as willbe noted is of a rectangular shape opened at both the top and bottomend. The. top surfaces 7 and 8 ofthe base normally serve to form aclosure for the lower end, while the top end is enclosed by a removablecover 15, which is removed from time to time for the filling of thecontainers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent 1s 1. In a cigarette dispenser of the class described, abase having an upwardly extended flange across the sides and back,forminga pocket with an open top and front, standards upon opposite sideportions of the base, a

bottomless container pivotally mounted in the standards and normallypositioned with its lower open end enclosed by the pocket and adapted tobe swung forward to discharge a cigarette, the base having anintermediate raised portion extended within the container and overhwhichthe cigarettes are rolled preparatory to discharging.

2. In a cigarette dispenser of the class described, a base having anupwardly extended flange across the sides and back, forming a pocketwith an open top and front, standards upon opposite side portions of thebase, a container concentrically pivotally mounted in the standards in amanner to insure the normal positioning of the lower end of thecontainer within the pocket and against the back flange thereof, thesaid base having a trough formed therein across the top front portion toreceive a cigarette, and the base having an intermediate raised portionextending within the container over which the cigarettes are rolledpreparatory to discharging.

Signed at Bridgeport in the county of Fairiield and State of Connecticutthis 10th day of May, A. D. 1927.

1 LOUIS WEIDLICH.

